Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.